Does Android dream of something more than Java?

Every time a new open technology appears, independent developers attempt to integrate it with other technologies. Programmers are often eager to try new stuff out especially in areas where it was not designed to be used. There’s a lot of porting in all directions going on. By satisfying their curiosity they give everyone incredible innovations [...]

Development, Eclipse, Google, Web and other forecasts

While everybody tried to predict what will happen this year, here is stuff that won’t happen in 2008.

It is hard to define what exacly an architecture actually is. Here are some ideas.

Eclipse M4 going online? RAP being wrong, GWT being right?

How to trick user to get him into feeling that a long operation takes shorter [...]

Online tools and AJAX fun

Online charting like Visio
Autodesk made available an interesting online tool for drawing blueprints and schemas. It looks like an AJAX version of popular MS Visio or open source Dia or Kivio. You can draw basic shapes, flowcharts, networks, user interfaces, office/room layouts, furniture and electronic circuits. You can also upload own images to the board [...]

GSoC lost, summer won

Unfortunately, it turned out today I didn’t make it to GSoC. I had issued two applications but none of them qualified. For one of them, the reason I think could be I’d chosen a project that was too complex, wasn’t highly demanded feature and it lacked concrete specification, thus making it too risky. I believe [...]

Interesting map mashups

Map Compare by rockstarapps.com allows you to compare Google Maps, MS Virtual Earth and Yahoo Maps to learn which one offers the best experiens and functionality and suits your needs the best. It shows the same location using all three technologies on one site. While you navigate one oh them, two others are updated accordingly. [...]

Mouse and keyboard of the future

Microsoft has came up with a pretty cool device that might replace mouse as a pointing device.

Here is the patent entry.
Looks fancy but if that is going to work like a joystick-in-the-air that might be not so useful I’m afraid. Also I doubt it could compete with touchpad screens like iPhone has. And many people [...]

IT / Computer Science Quotes

I’ve came across this wonderful set of 100 IT Quotes. The best ones that I enjoyed :
Passwords are like underwear: you don’t let people see it, you should change it very often, and you shouldn’t share it with strangers.
Chris Pirillo
It should be noted that no ethically-trained software engineer would ever consent to write a DestroyBaghdad [...]

Robots: flying and walking

Boston Dynamics is developing BigDog – a fancy robot for US Army. The robot is able to walk through a forest on his own and can also hold balance when smashed. Here are some cool videos:

Delfly is an insect-like flying robot that looks like a little dragonfly. [...]

Desktop is bad

I’ve spent most of the previous week trying to set up some tools running on a windows machine. With help of our support team I’d been fighting misconfiguration and network problems trying to get that windows running right. We’d spent many hours clicking around via Remote Assistance. After that I think the idea of managing [...]

The Web of tomorrow

I read yesterday a very good article about current trends and ways the web is currently developing. The article describes what I and many others observe. The authors gathered up various signals in one place and summarized what is going on around us.
They do not try to predict what the web will look like in [...]